Glove and the production thereof



H. GlLLlAN Jan. 10, 1933. 1,894,091

Fild June 17. 1930 iii Patented Jan. 10, 1933 UNITED STATES HERMANGILLIAN, OF COS HOCTON, OHIO GLOVE AND THE PRODUCTION THEREOFApplication filed June 17,

This invention relates to gloves.

This invention has utility when incorporated in canvas or work glovesand in the 5 lfnethod of cutting the fabric elements there- Referring tothe drawing Fig. 1 is a View of the back of a glove embodying theinvention herein;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a finger and hand 10 back element;

Fig. 3 is a view on the line IIIIII, Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view showing the method of cutting the elements of Fig.2 from strip stock.

The invention herein lies particularly in the production and use of thefabric elements of a glove which form the middle part of the hand backand the back of the two middle fingers as well as the fourchettestherebetween. From strip stock 1 which may be of any desirable material,glove elements 2 are Cut simultaneously in large quantities. By the useof a multiple die cutting through several layers of stock, together withthe particular shape of the elements disclosed herein, a great saving inmaterial is had as well as an improved glove.

Each element has a hand back portion 3 terminating in an abruptenlargement to form a finger portion having a finger back region 4 andfourchette forming extensions 5 therefrom. The sides 6 of the hand backportion are straight and parallel. Side or edge 7 extends between thesides 6 at one end of the element to form the wrist terminus. Thecorners 8 between the sides 6 and the side 7 are curves with a shortradius.

Each fourchette portion 1 has a straight side 9 extending atapproximately a right angle from a side or edge 6 to junction 10therebetween, the junction being a relatively small curved sectionhaving the same radius 45 as the curved corners 8.

From the outer termini 11 of the sides 9, the fourchettes have curvedsides 12 extending toward curved terminus or finger tip portion 13.

In cutting, parallel rows of the elements extend across the fabricstrip. Said rows 1930. Serial No. 461,733

as adjacent to each other have the junctions 11 abut to form a parallelsided serrations. The length of the fourchette side 9 is one half thewidth of the hand back portion 3. The sides 6, 7, have a right angletherebetween, the corners 8 and 10 are of the same radius.

Therefore a hand back portion 3 will completely interfit between eachpair of elements 2 as adjacent in a row across the strip, stock 1. Theelements are reversely symmetrical and a succeeding and interfitting rowextend 1n the opposite direction from the finger portions or the firstrow.

The two completely interfitting rows formmg the series of elements haveonly a small waste piece 14: on each end thereof along the strip sides.Assecond series of elements in a pair of like rows is cut adjacent thefirst series and the abutting elements are offset so that the secondseries partially interfits with? the first series. This leaves a minimumof waste, there being only small pieces 15 between the finger portions.

By this interfitting relationship between series of elements, there is asaving of the strip length 16 between each series cutting. This hasproven, in normal sized gloves, to amount to ten yards of material foreach one hundred dozen pair or a saving of three cents per dozen pair.

There is a cutting of 22 elements from a running length of 12" normally33 wide as against a cutting of 28 elements from a running length of 18and 38 wide using the finger tip straight line abutting method. 8

In a glove, the elements 2 are assembled by fastening means 17 usuallystitching and the sides 6, 9, 12, 13, are turned to be assembled toadjacent elements. The sides 6 are sewed to another side 6 of anadjacent ele-- ment 2. The sides 9 are also sewed to adjacent sides 9thus completing a fourchette between the two having a straight linefinger crotch region extending from the hand back portion to a palmelement 18. There is formed; a box-type crotch region defeating bindingor puckering between the fingers of a wearer. The palm and finger frontelement 18 may be stitched to the sides 12 and 13 completing the handcovering part and gauntlet 19 sit-r tached to the edge formed by theadjacent wrist termini 7 completing the glove.

What is claimed and it is desired to secure by United States LettersPatent is:

5 A glove hand back comprising a plurality of similar interfittingelements, each element extending from wrist to finger tip as a fullfinger back, said element having a finger back section extending fromthe finger tip to lat- 1 eral abrupt shoulders, which shoulders eachapproximate one-quarter the general width of the finger back sectionadjacent the shoulders, there to leave from the shoulders a hand backsection of half the width of the finger 1 back section, said half widthportion of the hand back extending to a wrist terminus, said elementsarranged side by side in a series with the wrist termini lying in a lineparallel to their tips along a lineal extent of said series said wristtermini of the first series interiitting with the wrist termini of asecond reversely disposed similar series with the wrist termini of oneabutting the shoulders of the other in pairs, said first series beingscalloped at the line of the finger tips on the other side of the firstseries away from the second series and there sinuously interfitting saidfinger tips of the first series with the finger tips of a third similarseries disposed I in the direction of the second series.

In witness whereof I afiix my signature.

HERMAN GILLIAN.

